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Creating Healthy Organizations by Graham Lowe

Creating Healthy Organizations Graham's new book Creating Healthy Organizations describes how to strengthen the links between people and performance.


2009 Quality Worklife-Quality Healthcare Collaborative Summit.

For more on Graham's presentation at the summit.


Making the Workplace More Satisfying

Graham's interview with Shelagh Rogers on CBC Radio's "Sounds Like Canada"

New study links obesity and workplace productivity
(Wednesday May 30th, 2007)

The results of an eight-year study of overweight workers by researchers at Duke University compared the health of workers classed as obese to those in the recommended weight class. Those classed as obese had twice as many workers' compensation claims, had medical claims costs that were seven times higher and had 13 times as many lost work days as those in the recommended class.

See: Trulstbye, John M. Dement and Katrina M. Krause, "Obesity and Workers' Compensation: Results From the Duke Health and Safety Surveillance System." Archives of Internal Medicine, Vol. 167, No. 8, April 23, 2007

PDF can be downloaded at: http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/167/8/766